Layer two display in Campus Manager Topology services

[imts]

Is there anyway to maintain the layer two view when exporting to Visio. Normally I get a "blob" of connected devices when I try this, not the neatly distributed view that Campus manager displays. I'm guessing there is now way around this but I'm hoping I'm wrong. It's not much of a time saver to try and reposition the 200 devices that are globed onto the Visio sheet even though they are logically connected.

[ebreniz]

Campus Manager 4.0 supports Microsoft Visio 2002.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/cscowork/ps563/products_user_guide_chapter09186a00803f379c.html#wp1113254

[4jtaylor]

Has anyone been able to open the .csv file created when exporting to visio from campus manager? I am running CM3.3 and have Visio 2003. In Visio, opening a file of type *.csv is not an option and I don't see anyway to import it. If anyone has got this to work please let me know.

Thanks

[imts]

Unfortunately Visio 2003 has had many features removed. One of which is CSV file import. Very expensive third party tools are now required to get this feature back (thanks Microsoft).

I think that Cisco should look at re-evaluating this item and try to get the output in a more globally supported format.

Also you loose the nice formatting if you use Visio 2002. You just end up with a massive connected mush, not the nice picture you see in Campus Manager.

[4jtaylor]

So Visio 2002 does work? Do you have to have a certain edition to get the import csv functionality?